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These electric cars 0 _direct to the track in ‘minutes. the track at 4:15 and Reiming_Traine leave e ;‘H ‘mmediately l.fl!' '-bt last race. TMAE 1 WILIIAME TR, R B. MILROY, Secretary. Or the old and reliable ELLINGTON DRUG CO., Agents, corner Fourth and Spring sts., Los Angeles, Cal. 2 PALACE and GRAND HOTELS, San Francisco. These hotels pos- sess the attributes that tourists and travelers appreciate —central Jocation, liberal manage- ment, modern ap- pointments a n 4 perfect cuisine. American and Eu- ropean plans. “u"“"”l LS | rem gla(.! nrm.‘u-rrl - the. mBnatural dist any inflamma- Denunciation Poli WASHINGTON, Jan. 4—For five hours | to-day the Senate discussed the army re- } organization bill. The debate took a wide | Tange at times, but was confined prin- . | elpally to the necessity for the increase in the regular army proppsed in the pend- ing measure. The Philippine question was threshed over at great length, but few really rew points were advanced. Some slight progress was made toward | the completion of the pending measure. Jones of Arkansas offered a resolution directing the Committee on Military Af- fairs to inquire upon what alleged facts | the charges against Major Heistand of the United States army by Erastus L. Hawkes are based, and report to the Sen- | ate. He said the charges made by Hawkes against Major Heistand were matters of common knowledge to newspaper readers. An army officer had been removed because | of > alleged bad conduct. The charges indicated that the army officer who re- | mained in the service was as guilty as| he who was removed. 1f so, he ought to | be removed, too. The resolution was re- ferred to the Committee on Military Af- fairs. The resolution offered by Pettigrew call- ing for information with reference to the | Philippines was referred to the Commit- tee on the Philippines, after a speech by Pettigrew, who said the President main- | taived thére was no war in the Philip- pines. The military committee declared that war existed there and that at least | 60,000 men would be required to suppress the rebellion “As the President and the military com- mittee disag! said Pettigrew, “it me we ought to have the facts eate an army of 100,000 men." the resolution would not be | at graveyard, the Philippine C but it was so referred. |, Another 0f Pettigrew’s resolutions, call- the President for information ty for an increase in the seems to before we e n | strengtl army, was referred to the | Committee on Military Affairs, The army bill was then taken up, and ked unanimous consent that the committee amendments in the e considered and passed upon. i rew objected, declaring that as his | [ » obtain information from the reg- ular chann had been thwarted, he pro- | | posed to have time to obtain it in some ‘Wellington of Maryland demanded to know the intention of the administration with reference to the Philippine Islands. if it was to force an annexation of the | ippines, then a large army would be ary. He declared the country had been assured at the beginning of the Phil- ippine trouble that it could be put down in five or six Wwe vet the situation was worse than eve “Those people cannot be put down,” declared We ton. “Is it the purpose | | of the admi ation to deprive them of | self-government? If so, 1 am opposed ](U ¢ such infamy.” Carter said the pith of Wellington's on was that the administration, to him, must declare its present and respect to the Philip- ator can consult the rec- to his | on,” said Carter. The President has no authority to decide what shall be done the Philippines. The moment the treaty of peace was ratified, that moment it became the supreme law of the land. If the President had refused to maintain the | sovereignty of the United States there, he would have laid himself liable to impeach- as he not already given up sover- nur a portion of Alaska?” inquired g0 Sarter replied that what the President :d done as to the Alaskan boundary ad been accomplished through a modus | vivendi, a purely temporary arrangement, It is nevertheless a fact,” declared Wellington, ““that territory over which we had undisputed soverelgnty has been | abandoned. The British flag has been | raised over it. That is the fact.’ t Carter—That is the alleged fact only. Wellington, continuing, said the Alas- kan boundary was distinctly marked by { stones and the territory acquired by the | | United States from Russia was clearly | the territory of the United States. He | said that if the President should be im- | peached if he relinquished territory in the | Philippines, he should lkewise ~be ime | peached for relinquishing sovereignty in | Alaska. Dou you approve of the relinquishment f territory in Alaska?" inguired Carter. I do not,” repiled Mr. Wellington. Carter—Then do you approve of a re- | linquishment of the Philippines? v gton—That is quite a different .rtPr declared it was the intention of the United States to maintain the laws in RECEIVES BOX OF DYNAMITE Illinois Attorney Has Nar- row Escape From Death. —_— BT. LOUTS, Jan. 4—A special to the Post-Dispatch from Paris, Ill, says Tnomas J. Coffman, an attorney resid- ine at Hume, narrowly escaped being blown to atoms with'an infernal machine gent through the mail to-day. The box was of wood with a sliding 1ld. It con- tained a pound stick of dynamite and sev- eral match heads, which, however, failed to ignite and explode the charge when the box was opened. Two thicknesses of heavy brown paper covered the box, which was addressed to Dr. Bylvester Coffman, Hume, IIL, a brother of the lawyer, who opened the mail. The inner surface of the box of the 1id was studded with tacks, so ar- ranged that they would scratch the match ! heads, and there was also a slip of sand- paper fixed so that it would be drawn cver them if the tacks failed to do their work e e i e et ADVERTISEMENTS. HAVE HAD THEIR DAY. | Local Treatments for Catarrh Rele- gated to the Rear. ‘The surest and safest treatment for any form of Catarrh is an internal remedy which acts specifically upon the blood n.nd mucous membranes. Such a remedy s 1d everywhere by the new preparation Srugkiats as Stnart's Catarrh Tablate, & icine in pleasant tablet form. Theu tablets contain in highly concen- trated form well known germ antiseptics like sanguinaria, guaiacol, Gum and similar curative elements, and no one who suffers m any form of catarrh and has experienced the inefficlency and in- convenience of powders, sprays and inhal. ers will ever go back to such l.nuqum,gd remedlel -.!tvr once trying 8o pleasant treatme Stuart's © Catarrh Tablata. 2 one which gives so much rellaf in o short a time. Druggists sell Stuart’s Catarrh ’l'tbleu at fifty cents for full sized their daily use will effect troublesome and dangerous di: The danger from catarrh is ti short road to consumption, to chronic stomach catarrh and to catarrh of liver and kidneys. Most cases of deafness are caused from stoppage of the eustachian tube as a re- sult of catarrh. and IY cure this “1( it is a |law they SENATORS ATTACK THE ADMINISTRATION ‘Debate on Army Bill Calls Forth Bitter Mr{ of Philippine cy. the Philippines, to restore order and to grotect property. Beyond that prlnclP ongress would determine what the ulti- mate disposition of the islands would be. Teller of Colorado sharply criticized the pending measure as an entering wedge for a large standing army. “You will want not 100,000 men,” he declared, ‘but you will want 200,000, and you will want them for a hundred years. This measure is not intended merely to meet an Smargmicy; but to fix upon the country a great stan ing army." Teller said it would be easily possible to pass a bill in forty-eight hours that would provide for an army of 100,000 men or 200,- 060 men for service in the Philippines, pro- vided it was made to apply to purely emergency service and for a definite lim- ited time. He attacked Commission now in Manila for legislating for those in whom they had no interest. “The Czar of Rus&ia,” said he, “is an absolute Czar. He has a council of sixty men who sit with him, but these men are Russians, They have the sympathy and ambitions of Russians. But these Ameri- caus in the Phillppines are strangers to the country and to the people. Under the ave a right to be there, but under God's law, which is higher, they have no place there at all. Their actions are the worst form of imperialism.” Caffery inquired whether in the circum- stances Teller would vote to maintain the authority of the United States in the Philippines. “As Mr. Lincoln announced in regard to the Mexican War,” replied the Colorado Senator, ““a_war that he did not believe in, he would vote for such a force as the Government needed. So I have no doubt that as long as our flag floats in the Phil- ippine archipelago I will (reluctant as I may be) vote to maintain the army and the flag there. If that is illogical. it is illogical because there 13 no better way out of it."” Proctor said ke thought the Colorado Senator was under a misapprehension as to what the army bill proposes to do. A he regarded the matter, the maximum force authorized by the bill was to be used only in the present emergency, and | there would be a return to the minimum of 45.000, which was the peace footing of the bill. No ore could tell when the troops might needed in Alaska, Hawail or Porto Rico. Likewise there was a possibility of the need of a larger American foree in Cuba at the request of the Cubans themselves. And as for the Philippines, no one could doubt that for a considera- ble time, ¢ven if all demands should be granted, a large force of our troops must be kept in those islands. » Hoar sug?rfll@d a general amendment to the bill looking to the conciliation of the Filipinos and expressed the opinion that in time of peace we should have one soldier to 1000 of our population. He did not therefore, he said, o%pose the bill on the score of increase, but he did oppose it because of the avowed policy of mi tary control of the islands. “TIt s idle, he said, “to tell us that these people are not fit for self-government.” e quoted the President and naval officers to show that the Filipinos are an intelligent peo- ple, and added: “The way to prepare them for liberty Is to set them free.” Hoar said that if the facts could be known, there would be no two opinions | as to what we should do in the Philippines, for he believed that if tho peonle were generally convinced that the Fllipinos were as capable of self-govern- ment as they are they would make nc effort to continue to nubjagaze those peo- of ple in the inter Hoar said that it would be most de- sirable to have appointed a commission | representing all phases of political life, men of the highest character and stan ing, to ascertain tha facts as to the Phil ippines and make them known to Con- gress and to the people. He hoped such a commission would be appointed before the close of the present sess‘on. We should give the- Filipinos a hearing. He said: “‘Let them state their case. They can | come and go in peace ard honor. If we say to the Filipinos that we will not con- sider their case until they go down on their knees, lay their hands upon their hl‘yq and their lips in the dust, this war will go on if there is a epark of spirit and principle in their breasts until every Filipino of one sex Is exterminated and vntil the women among them take up the | fight and are exterminated also.” Stewart of Nevada supported the pend- ing bili The rebellion, he declared, should be crushed as an Indian uprising | in the West would be, and liberty and ‘s | blessings would be extended to the people of the Philippines. Caffery of Loulsiana argued against the pending bill, denouncing the creation of a large permanent standing army. The Senate then devoted an hour or more in perfecting the army bill by the addition of part of the committee amend- ments, to which no objection was raised. Among the amendments. passed over for | future consideration was that relating to the establishment of a veterinary corps. e S b e COMMERCE LAW 1S INADEQUATE Interstate Commission Sug- gests Many Important Changes. WASHTINGTON, Jan. 4—The fourteenth annual report of the Interstate Commerce gommmlon was sent to Congress to- ay. Attentlon is called by the commission to the neceesity for further legislation amending the act to regulate commerce, the reasons for urging these amendments having been carefuily explained in pre- vious reports. Knowledge of present con- dluonl and '.lmhnd.l. it says, increases nu:u-l for le lllflvl action vn the lines y indicated and in such directions as will furnish an uate and workable statute for the tion of commerce among the several Btates. ‘It is evident,” the report says, “that rallroad managers generally have mmu no attempt to conform thdr prmt!cel to the spirit of the law. “:iy within ite letter and suc in a.voldlu its penalties, but they claim that they are virtually compelled to counteract its alm and evade its observance. Thus pens that some of the most im useful incidents of railway malintained by methods wnich are believed t0 be inharmonious with, if not in actual violation of, the Federal statute, This is more than the quesdon of p con- tracts between rival carriers—it the guestion of such sgreements as relate o classification, charges and Hko—concernlnl which llnlformlt:. cer- ta' and stability are of manifest bcnf t and convenience to the public. 1s Incxl¢able thei the Mll ditions now Qxl'( uent ;I;ould oceltl:“ &N “am acts ot lnjultlu 0! sible for each road ‘l‘h.ortucal y it is lished schedules in wury -.‘-“ e its this in many cases must be do: at all, only at the loss of needed traffic, unless all rival roads with equal strict- ness and honesty conform in like manner to ‘their published rates. The idea of to, Whieh ail R all o cmd- llaod ' lon and contro s ey Be ot may public regulation implies certain ards of correct riers should conduet form. s to its and constant competition as term is commonly understood. o jwbe, polley now pursued cannot ‘;uvont an outcome of vicious of I.ll. those d{lcflmlnnionl the few and place th yantage. They aid the st nwlot‘fn Vurdem ‘which, 'b;nmm ‘ons, always unjust and often du&‘ncuve. SATURDAY, the Philippine | JANUARY 5, 1901 SUFFRAGE BILL |5 RECOMMITTED Lively Debate in House on Enfranchisement of Negroes. B s Southern Members Declare That Blacks Are Kept From the Polls in the Interest of Civ- ilization. - L AR ‘WASHINGTON, Jan. 4—The House to- day had another spirited struggle over the Olmstead resolution to investigate tha abridgment of the suffrage in certain | Southern States with a view to reappor- | ticnment upon the actual basis of suf- frage. It was finally referred to the cen- sus committee, where the opposition de- sired it to go originally. Some of the Republican leaders were not in sympathy with the resolution. Olmstead tried to get Hopkins to agree that the committje | would consider the resolution within a week, but the chairman of the census committee declined to make any pledge to that effect. The debate upon the reso- lution was marked by exceeding frank- ness. Some of the Southern members avowed that the attempt to enfranchise the negro had been a lamentable fallure, and the action of certain States in legally eliminating the blacks as factors at the polls, they sald, was in the interest of civ- ilization and progress. After the resolu- tion had been disposed of the reapportion- ment bill was taken up. An attempt to agree upon a time for the final vote on the bill failed, although the general opinfon is that the debate will conclude early next week, Dalzell of Pennsylvania called the House to order to-day in the absence of Speaker Henderson, who was detained at his home by a severe cold which he con- tracted while in New York, during the holidays. Immediately after the ap- g;o‘al of the journal half a dozen mem- TS were on their feet demanding recog- nition. Among them was Olmstead, who yesterday created a stir by offering the resolution to instruct the committe on | census to investigate the alleged abrid ment of the right to vote in several Sout. ern States. But the Bfelkel' pro tem. flr!( rnca nized Lacey of lowa, who presented rivileged resolution asking the Presi- et to return a minor bill in which there | was a clerical error. It was adop! |, Burton of Ohio rsr“emed v.he rtvor and harbor blll In order to clear the way for Olmstead, Graff of Illionis, chairman of the Committee on Claims, after stating that it was apparent that no claims could be considered to-day (this belng the day | set apart under the rules for their con- | sideration), asked unauimous consent to pass the regular order for to-day until next week. Swanson of Virginia objected. . The Speaker pro tem. was then about to recal- { nize Olmstead when Underw of Ala. bama headed him off with the point of no uorum. Tke House was counted and there were only 142 members in the hall. | Under the operation of the automatic rule the Speaker was about to direct a 1 of the House when Underwood interposed with a motion to adjourn, and the fili- bustering was on. e vote was taken | | by ayes and noes. The motion to adjourn | | was defeated—85 to 103. The Speaker pro tem. held that the pending question was | the vote on the question of consideration | raised against the Olmstead resolution yesterday. During the previous rollcall the leaders on both sides had conferred and an agreement had been reached that | the resolution should be recommitted. | Richardson, the minority leader, formally | proposed that this course be ' follows Olmstead replied that he would consider the prc Yoeiuun after the House had voted to consider the resolution. “I may say,” sald he, ““that it had been my intention’ to follow the course Sug- gested by the gentleman from Tennes- see. | “Why not do so now and save time?"’ uked Richardson. But Olmstead insisted upon a vote on the question of consideration and the roll | was called. The House voted, 103 to 91, to consider | the resolution, Wh!'re\lpon Richardson moved to recommit the resolution to the | Census Committee. Upon Richardson’s | motion Olmstead demanded the previous question and notwithstanding some dila- tory tactics by the Democrats, with as- | sistance from several Republiicans, the | previous question was ordered, 92 to 8. | ‘Underwood of Alabama made a warm | speech in opposition to the resolution. He hoped, he said, that such a resolution | would not appear in the House. The real purpose of the fourteenth amendment had | been to enfranchise the negro. It had failed. The fifteenth amendment had been Successful for a time, but in the end it had proved a lamentable failure. Both amendments had been mistakes not only gdr!y The time had come, how after the itterness of the war was over, when tho people of the South in fairness and jus- tice to themselves and the negro race | were trying not to oppress the negro race, | but only to protect themselves and their property against maiadministration. He admonished his friends from the North that they did not .ive among the negroes and did not undersiand the problem. ““We of the South,” said he, addressing the House, “‘are trying 1o serve it faith- fully to both races, and I (2ppeal to you if you are in favor of upbullding the negro race, if you are in favor of pro- tecting the investments which the Norgh has sent there, to send this resolution to_a committee 'and let it die there.” ‘Willlams of Mississipp! said that of re- cent years some of the people of the South had listened to the siren voice of the North that sectionallsm was dead. “Th no man who loves American ctvilizationy” saia he, “who 1s not glad in his heart that by constitutional an: legal methods—analogous to those adopted in Massachusetts, Rhod- Island and other States—the South has solved this trouble- Iome and almost unsolvable problem.’ mstead, the author of the resolution, u.ld he dld not want the resolution to die and would 4Rove its ref Census . Co: oe, if that committes would agree to call the committee together to consider it within mé.h ‘!“ah Hopki; aid h airman ns the mood to make a bargain lo.day. but assured Olmstead that his committee " Olmatoad then Juade the motk s then made the motion to ref and it was carried without division - Hopkins immediately called ortionmant il and cpened & tg:h:; tion of his ority of the Census down to the present member e, X from considerations of econom: d ‘in- telligent legisiation. T Shafroth of Colnndo wunt to explnln how it t.fl g lortllx. would gain rosentative under the ltm Ddo tad if the total number was T 358, but would not if it was Hopum reglud that the fact was called years system, tice t State. mbaersh'; s rbitrarily fxed at 397 which mad th of ‘representation 208,868, vlsm. the “po'pulnlon of the States by this divisor, me: ‘e assigned.” The other 22 were u-lsnod to those h-vln. the lar| fons. m Itel w ich were bill, he d wm thou vhlc resental resentative \lndu- the basis of by the director tho census or a !louu ot IK ‘Those delt 1y embers, ere berase! mchefl by tho Bur ou’h bill from New York and Pennn‘lvanu. He declared that a more unfair bill was never presented to the House than that f-tho by the fr l-lg: ll ) 617 |nth- tml. It this ratlo were taken in New York, P-nm lvania and Illinols, New York would have five. Pennsvlvania three and tatives than th- bill al‘owu them Bhafroth of Colorado followed, eiting the case of Colorado, which would get an aa.itional .mber it _the H to consist of 33 to 338, but would lose the faattional member at B, to chow that e nyl(em upon which the hill was predi c& unjust. t 5o clock the House lajoufnd. anmflum Laxative Bremo-Quinine Tablets. to the Democratic but to the Republicaz | he! HOME STUDY CIRCLE FOR CALL READERS American Political Wits and Satirists From Seba Smith to the Present Day. XII. Under & government like that of the American republie, where there exists per- fect equality of political privilege and per- fect freedom of speech, and where, with every man eligible for the highest office, every man is to some extent a politiclan or at least a critic, there must naturaily be an abundance of political satire. America from the very first has been ex- ceedingly prolific in this variety of humor. Office-holders and lawmakers have been regarded as legitimate prey, and have ever been unmercifully lampooned and satirized. Even the President must en- dure a continuous fire of criticism and eatire and caricature. American political satire in its modern form originated with Seba Smith, who in January, 1830, began a series of letters to Portland Courier under nym of Major Jack Downing. le was in progress in the Maine Lexll ature, the forces were equally divid- ed and each claimed to have elected its Governor. Smith, who was then_editor of the Courler, conceived the truly Yankea idea of revmwlnfi the situation at frequent intervals from the standpoint of a shrewd but unsophisticated country boy, who has come to town fresh from the baukwom\. with = load, of axhandies, cheese, le sass” “footings,” and who Stumbles quite lnnocemly into the heated Legisla- ture. His homely lettets to his Uncle Joshua, a rural politician of great zeal, and to his Cousin Ephraim, and the let- ters in return from all his relatives, are full of real fun, of shrewd common sense and skillful characterization. The letters, though of a local nature, were soon wide- 1y read and widely copled. At this point the series was taken up by a young New York author, Charles Augus- tus Davis, and carried far beyond the or- iginal intention of Smith. Davis enriched e character of Jack Downing and added hew elements of fun. The young politician, DownlnT became | at once a national figure. s nomin- ated for Governor of Maine, but, notwith- standing that he polls the entire vote of Downingville, 18 overwhelmingly defeat- ed. His candidacy, however, has made him known, and he now aspires to na- tional honors. Hearing that eral of Jackson’s Cabinet have resigned he starts post haste for thin%mn % “I think,” he writes his uncle, “it's ‘the duty of all true republikans that have tha good of the country at heart to take hold and help the President along in these try- ing difficultles. For my part, I am pe fectly willlng to take one of the offices, and 1 hope some other good men will come right forward and take the others. What a shame 'twas that them are Secretaries should all clear out and leave the poor old general to do all the work alone. ¥, uncle, they ki no more patriotism than your old hos: But on his arrival the President declared “that they had got him into such a hobble about them are offices that he couldn’t 've me one of 'em If he was to dle.”” But e secured for him a captaincy in the army and sent him to fight the Brmsh 1 the Aroostook war. After a glorious an bloodless campaign he returns to Wash- ington, becomes confidential adviser to the President, helps mightily with his counsel during the nullification difficulty and the struggle with the national banks, and later plunges with vigor into t! Mexican war, which he lights up marvel ously with his luminous correspondence from the front. During the rest of hi career until {.n before the opening of the civil war he is ever at the storm cen- ter of national politics. ‘These lenm pubn-hed complete In 1859 under the “My Thirty Years Out of the Senat: lre running over with home- ly wisdom, with shrewd observation, with comic incident and illustration. No satires were ever more popular. Political parti- sans forgot their hostility and joined to- gether in good-humored laughter over the shrewd speculations and grotesque adven- tures of Major Jack Downing. Nothing grows stale more quickly than satire, yet these homely letters, with their broad studies of human nature and their care- ful characterizations, are still fresh and readable. Uncle Joshua, for {llustration, in an argument with the major estimates that in 1851 there were twenty political parties north of Mason and Dixon's line. “ ‘Weil, now,’ says Uncle Joshua, ‘how do you suvpose we are going to work {o make o President, with all these parties in the fleld, fightln’ cross-handed and every which way ¥ T'm sure I can't see’ says I ‘unless we can get un & party that will surround the whole of "em, 4s the Trish corporal surrounded the half & dozen prisoners.’ “ “What do_you think of Mr. Calhoun's plan.” said Uncle Joshus, 'that's laid down in his works, just publishi Whatw (hat? says L “T don't think T've d of it." “* ‘Well, says he, ‘he recommends to choose two Presidents, one for the North and one for the Bouth—each side of Mason and Dixon's j,nd no law of Con to become a law ed by both idents. How think says I, “f the country de- to live on it would starve to he ass between two bundles x-ndeu upon la ath us sure "At (hl! Cousin Nabby spoke up, and says she: ‘More like the country would be Hkl I bundle of hay bet eat up pretty quick. Uncle Joshua. says he, looking very sober, Come, come, Nabby, you hush up: what do you know about politics? Thereupon he be lllll to expound with vigor Calhoun's proposi- incte Jo-hu. 1214 his pipe down. and that he was in arnest. and Aunt Kslhh 1aia her nittin’ down, for she ses he was in arnest, too.”" The followers of Seba Smith have been well nigh countless. The most prominent have doubtless been Robert H. Newell, who was gromlnen' during the Civil War rlod un the Jmeudon “Orpheus C. err," Ross cke, who was widely o during the war and the reconstruction era under the pseudonym “Petroleum V. Nasby.” The latest prom- lnentblonembfl of thia group s our own “Nasby'” was doubtless the test pewspaper satirist that America yeot produced, yet he deserves not the same consideration as Seba Smith, since in reality he took up the pen that Bmith laid down. There is more of the merely comlo, more’ of horseplay and straining after eflect in_“Nas than in “Jack Down- nf s represented as being an flliterats Kentucky backwoodsman who poses as a reformer and as an seeker.” His spelling is aro morals are exceedingly stands all that s hi sensuality and unsmvulon- schemes he brought to light the more latent evils of Amerfcan itics, and his Influence was m:;mden.b ated, needs but to Lin- foln and many of his counselors d.li.‘htod !kuh& and l.l:nelulu of readers in with great glee. s 1e e T B shrewd characterization, the cai study of yenon-llty ln "NHW that thers is in “Jack Down! There 1s more clown- ishness and mnn rant. Take, for instance, his letter written during the agitation in Congrees of n suffrage: ““The dle is cast! The I'lfllo“lll hes fallen er at_ Confedrit lace Tors foraver: Powram Takes Wi Do handed out by 8 m.m;.r ger will hev the openin’ uv 5 parties residin’ hereabouts, containin’ remit- tances: a nigger will have the rifiin’ uv letters adrest to ‘lottry. extractin’ n’ will be—but weets therefrom; a Coulam s dwell wpom the Simgumim theme no 'rhm 1s a deeper ufln ,Nas| han in Jack Downing. T him.’ uy‘:, Rich: ardson. AL low political mflvu tripped 'of thur pretenses. and a moral as we!l as rdm a laugh. n ;’ very different wunny we e gentm of American satirists, and few undllputed American ‘:nvr:.om: contribution to the Itt- erature ol golltlcal satire was the ‘‘Big- ‘dlmtefl a m! th:’%‘m“ um'mt?d';: can tl nrfi of 'h was -ludhl;yd:;. - thm Jack Downing variety, and the humor is heightened by the learned comments of the erudite Parson Wilbur and the broad fun of the clownish Sawin. The series, after its learned introduction by Parson Wilbur, is opened by a letter from the father of Hosea Biglow to the editor of the Boston Courler. Our Hosea was down to Boston last week, and he see a cruetin sarjunt a-struttin’ round as popler as a hen with 1 chicking, with 3 fellers drummin’ and fifin’ arter him ilke all nater. The sarjunt he zhmu Hosea hedn't gut his | teeth cut. * ¢ * com 'Bome considerabal ik gone to bed I heern Him a-thrashing round iike a short-talied Buil in fli-time. The old Woman ses she to me, ses she, Zekle, ses she, our Hossee's gut the chollery or suthin’ anuther. ses she, don't you Bee ekeered, I he's chy a-makin' poitery, ses I, he's Silers on hand that ere business liks Da and Martin, and ure enuf, cum mornin’, Hosy he cum down .lll‘l full chizzle, hare on eend and cote tails are a simple mixture of the merely comie with shrewd Yankee wisdom: Jest go home and ask our Naney Whether I'd be sech a goose Pz _to jine ye—guess you'd fancy The etarnal bung was loose! She wants me fer home consumption, alone the hay's to mow— Ef you're arter tnlh o' gumption, You've a darned long row to hoe. But mingled with the fun are bursts of true humor. @ does not have to read far to realize that the author of these rollicking verses was deeply stirred; that his heart was full for his suffering tellow- ; that he was putting a m @ that wu to make mankind better and wiser and more gentle into a homely dress that it might reach a wider area of humanity. It is Lowell himself who speaks in stan- zas like these; El fer war, I call it murder— re you hev it plain and faty 3 dou't vant %9 Do furder Than my Testyment fer that; hes sed so plump and fairly, ‘Xt‘. e3 long ez it I.l‘ . T Touve gut to gt up & Bt Tou wast to take 1n Ged *Tatat your Sopvietts ax mu-o Make the thing a grain more righty “Taint a-follerin’ your bell-wathers Will excuse ye in His sight. B you take a eword an ror 1, AR g0 stick & feller thru, Guv'ment aln't to answer fer it God'll send the bill to you. These rs, with their wonderful Wwealth of humor in all of its phases, are the highwater marks of American polit- ical satire. ‘“No speech, no plea,” says George Willlam Curlll “no appeal was comparable in popular and permanent ef- fort with this pitiless tempest of fire and ball, in the form of wit, argument, satire, knowledge, insight, learning, common sense and patriotism. It was humor of the purest strain, but humor in deadly earnest. In its course, as in that of a cyclone, it lwe all before it—the press, the chu ariticism, scholarship—and it bore resistiessly down upon the Mexican war, the pleas for slavery, the congres- Al i"ib.l.ndt- Lo s a wit & punster Lowell has had Bo American equal save Holmes. His ‘‘Fable for Crl!lel is & mixture of rollick- lnt fun, of pun. and la.ufha.ble rh ticism. “The ry Lot of Mr. Knott,” he shows himnel the equ.u of Hood u a v;l:"lnd a punster, Funs in every -con- cealed, boldly prominent, unhel.rd -of com- binations, often seemingly unpremeditated and spontaneous. confront the reader in every stanza. Mr. Knott would build a house in the “two-door style,” and thus he soliloguizes: A_pocket-tull of rocks ‘twould take To bulld & house of freestone, But then it is not hard to make What nowadays is the stone; ‘!‘h. cunning painter In a trice ur houses outside petrifies. Ana le think it very ‘Without inquiring deeper; My money never shall be thrown Away on such a deal of stone, When stone of deal ars cheaper. He was not wholly satisfled, after his house was completed, to find that Tempests, with petrific shock So ta speak, made it really rock. Or, again, when the wind blew through the crannfes and holes caused by the shrinking lumber and The home at night was full of pounds, scratchings, raps—ll, Thumps, bumps, creaks, “Zounds Cried Knott, “this goes beyond all bounds, I do not deal in tongues and sounds.” So full was Lowell of wit and fun that it bubbled out even in his most serious pieces of literary criticism. Who wouid expect to laugh qver a scholarly review of the ?oetry and the Influence of the poet Yet note how the genial ecritic handles his verse: Gower has positively ralsed tediousness to the recision of & science, he has made dullnbes an efrloom for the students of our lterary his- tory. As you sMp to and fro om the frozen levels of his verse, which give no foothold to the mind, as your nervous ear awaits the in- evitadble recurrence of his rhyme, regularly pertinacious as the tick of an clght-day clock, and reminding you of Wordsworth ‘Once more the ass did lengthen out The hard, dry ses-saw of his horridle bray.™ You learn to dread, almost to t, the powers of this Indafltillbl. man. is the undertaker of the fal legend. * ¢ ¢ Our literature had to lle by and recrult for more than four centuries before it could give us an equal vacuity in Tupper. ‘Who bu J.owell can make the dry lnmed fleld of literary criticism a inge of the humorous and the witt; Lowell is predominatingly a sati & wit. Much of his laug! from the head rather than th he knew and human 1ife, and Jespite nie sarcasm he was never bitter nor tic save In the presence of positive evi', Genuine love of l‘:)\;muu breathes. N orgiow Pl?qrs e poet’s minor lyrics Had Lowell wri'- “The Courtin’ " he would Fmt humorist. nen c-n clou for a study of umw, wih Uity Truin g: o a..“m‘"“"?;‘.h"' Tow a few this perfect 1. n, the ohimbley, erook-necks m., in amongst ‘em ruste 4 agin” .%. P Rink TeIT midter. Thet last word pricked him like & pin, An'—wal, be up an’ kist her. WRSR S M hy e - e Huldy sot ashes, All kin* o' mfl‘] mn‘ the lips An' teary roun’ the lashes. Then her red come back like the tide Down to the Bay o' Fundy. A" il T know is they wus crisd In meetin’ come nex’ m S PATTEE, Pennsylvania State Colkgo. Joseph Le Count’s Will. The will of the late Joseph P. Le Count was filed for probate yesterday. Decedent vuud at maoo and consists -( real prop. erty, stocks and bonds.